Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair
number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described
here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html

Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The
tests that are expected to break are:

test_codecencodings_cn
test_codecencodings_hk
test_codecencodings_jp
test_codecencodings_kr
test_codecencodings_tw
test_codecs
test_multibytecodec

This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch,
though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.
diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index 5f541f5..4c0da6f 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
 	SSL_CTX* 	ctx;
 	SSL*     	ssl;
 	X509*    	server_cert;
-	BIO*		sbio;
 	char    	server[X509_NAME_MAXLEN];
 	char		issuer[X509_NAME_MAXLEN];
 
@@ -474,15 +473,22 @@
 
 	if (!(buf = PyString_FromStringAndSize((char *) 0, len)))
 		return NULL;
+	
+	/* first check if there are bytes ready to be read */
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	count = SSL_pending(self->ssl);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
 
-	sockstate = check_socket_and_wait_for_timeout(self->Socket, 0);
-	if (sockstate == SOCKET_HAS_TIMED_OUT) {
-		PyErr_SetString(PySSLErrorObject, "The read operation timed out");
-		Py_DECREF(buf);
-		return NULL;
-	} else if (sockstate == SOCKET_TOO_LARGE_FOR_SELECT) {
-		PyErr_SetString(PySSLErrorObject, "Underlying socket too large for select().");
-		return NULL;
+	if (!count) {
+		sockstate = check_socket_and_wait_for_timeout(self->Socket, 0);
+		if (sockstate == SOCKET_HAS_TIMED_OUT) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PySSLErrorObject, "The read operation timed out");
+			Py_DECREF(buf);
+			return NULL;
+		} else if (sockstate == SOCKET_TOO_LARGE_FOR_SELECT) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PySSLErrorObject, "Underlying socket too large for select().");
+			return NULL;
+		}
 	}
 	do {
 		err = 0;